ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,101, issued on July 22, was assigned to VDURA Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Processing writes with storage node failure in a parallel file system" was invented by Shafeeq Sinnamohideen (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel file system (PFS) comprising a plurality of storage nodes. The PFS receives a request to write data in a file from an application running on a client system. The file is stored in a set of storage nodes. The PFS identifies a target storage node to which data needs to be written in response to the request to write data. The PFS detects that the target storage node is inaccessible. The PFS completes the r...